According to County Clerk Kim Hafen, only 99 out of 380 voting machines were properly programmed. Election staff tried to copy data to other cards but the information was wiped from previous cards during the process.
In the city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, five out of six voting machines malfunctioned counting votes for US Republican candidate Donald Trump as votes for US Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the Lebanon Daily News. Technical experts said they repaired the machines and recounted the votes correctly.
"There were reports that when people vote for republicans the entire ticket switches over to democrats. You have seen that, it is happening at various places… in other words the machine [for voting] you put down the republican and it registers as a democrat and they had a lot of complaints about that," Trump told Fox News commenting on the incident.
The Durham County in North Carolina recommended an extension of voting time in the US presidential elections due to a glitch in the voting system with laptops failing to work properly, CNN reported.
Voters in Detroit, the state of Michigan, complained that ballot machines failed to accept their votes, Fox News said.
"Defective machines will be swapped out. All ballots will be put through and all votes will be tabulated," Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey told the FOX 2 broadcaster.
In two key battleground states of Virginia and Philadelphia, some polling stations witnessed long lines over the failures of the voting machines. Voting equipment failures were also registered in the Wilson County in the State of Tennessee.
About 2,000 people got incorrect information about their polling place in the state of Indiana.
According to other media reports, technical glitches also occurred in California, New York and Chicago.
Moreover, the Gizmodo media outlet reported that a voter in California was told at the polling station that he had been marked as a deceased person. Several people are said to have suffered from the bug that was quickly fixed.
